Has anyone had any luck getting a Realtek 8188ce driver working on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64? (or at all for that matter)
I know realtek is crap, I just bought a Thinkpad w520, nice laptop but skimped on the wifi (looks like I might have to upgrade it) thinking I would be able to get a working driver going.
I reviewed the HARDWARE.TXT on the DVD and it shows rtl8192 is supported under the rl driver. I built that and loaded it successfully but didnt work. I also went the route of grabbing the WinXP64 drivers (.inf and .sys) then used ndisgen to build an ndis driver but that too didnt work (even after a lot of .inf parsing and manual converting to UTF-8).
It "looks" to me like the rtl8192 is packaged in the same rtl8188ce driver from a Windows standpoint. I saw rtl8192 listed on the FreeBSD rl driver but not the 8188ce.
Anyone else gotten this to work (or have any suggestions?) Worst case Ill just pony up for a supported card but I just didnt want to deal with external WLAN NIC's (looking to keep it internal for neatness/portability factor). Thanks in advance.
I know realtek is crap, I just bought a Thinkpad w520, nice laptop but skimped on the wifi (looks like I might have to upgrade it) thinking I would be able to get a working driver going.
I reviewed the HARDWARE.TXT on the DVD and it shows rtl8192 is supported under the rl driver. I built that and loaded it successfully but didnt work. I also went the route of grabbing the WinXP64 drivers (.inf and .sys) then used ndisgen to build an ndis driver but that too didnt work (even after a lot of .inf parsing and manual converting to UTF-8).
It "looks" to me like the rtl8192 is packaged in the same rtl8188ce driver from a Windows standpoint. I saw rtl8192 listed on the FreeBSD rl driver but not the 8188ce.
Anyone else gotten this to work (or have any suggestions?) Worst case Ill just pony up for a supported card but I just didnt want to deal with external WLAN NIC's (looking to keep it internal for neatness/portability factor). Thanks in advance.